Certified Digital Media Verification for Tamper-Proof Document Execution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital media, such as photos and documents, captured by user devices lack verification methods to ensure authenticity and prevent manipulation, which can lead to fraudulent legal or business claims.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for secure media capture, verification, and processing that includes generating a certified document by verifying the authenticity of digital media assets and associated metadata using biometric and artificial intelligence features, and encrypting the data with asymmetric encryption, ensuring the integrity of the media through hash digests and public key verification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional photo storage and viewing methods are used, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates because there is no way to verify authenticity or detect manipulation
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by capturing metadata and generating hash digests at the moment of photo capture, before any potential manipulation can occur. This pre-verification data is embedded in the photo file itself, allowing future authenticity checks without requiring complex external verification systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces hash digests and metadata as intermediary elements that mediate between the original photo and the verification process. These intermediaries contain cryptographic signatures and authentication data that enable reliability verification without requiring direct access to the original capture device or complex verification infrastructure.
2Loss of information
If photo metadata is stored with the photo, then information completeness is improved, but susceptibility to manipulation worsens because metadata can be altered without detection
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the photo data, metadata, and cryptographic hash digests into a single integrated photo object. This combining ensures that any alteration to the photo, metadata, or hash would invalidate the authentication, making it impossible to alter one component without detecting the change in the others.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms metadata from simple descriptive data into cryptographically secured parameters by generating hash digests of the metadata and embedding these in the photo file. This parameter transformation changes the metadata from mutable information to immutable authentication data.
3Reliability
If digital signatures and authentication are implemented, then reliability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to complex verification processes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service authentication where the photo file itself contains all necessary authentication data (hash digests, metadata, cryptographic signatures) and performs self-verification. Viewers can simply check the embedded authentication data without requiring external verification systems or complex processes, making the system both secure and easy to use.
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AI summary
Methods and systems for secure media processing may be used to execute and certify a digital media asset by verifying that the digital media asset is authentic and has not been altered since capture. In some cases, these secure media processing techniques may be used in the mobile certification and execution application and a corresponding server system. The mobile application and the corresponding server system may automatically generate finalized documents upon receiving certified digital media and the corresponding metadata from the users. The digital media and other information from the users may be received while the user is in communication with other users. A biometric and artificial intelligent feature recognition system may be utilized to receive biometric data and verify identity. Data transferred to a secure server are accessible by various parties involved in the certification and execution process to provide transparency.